Gifs¶

This feature is only available on Android.

Unlike Glide, GIFs are not supported by default. However, Coil has an extension library to support them.

To add GIF support, import the extension library:

implementation("io.coil-kt.coil3:coil-gif:3.0.3")

And that's it! The ImageLoader will automatically detect any GIFs using their file headers and decode them correctly.

Optionally, you can manually add the decoder to your component registry when constructing your ImageLoader:

val imageLoader = ImageLoader.Builder(context)
    .components {
        if (SDK_INT >= 28) {
            add(AnimatedImageDecoder.Factory())
        } else {
            add(GifDecoder.Factory())
        }
    }
    .build()

To transform the pixel data of each frame of a GIF, see AnimatedTransformation.